
Dr. Mallikarjuna N. Nadagouda received his Ph.D. from India in 2003. After obtaining his Ph.D.,
he worked for General Electric (GE) in Bangalore, India for two years before moving on to work
with the late Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid (2000 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) at the
University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Nadagouda went on to become an Oak Ridge Institute of
Science and Education (ORISE) postdoctoral fellow at the United State Environmental
Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL), and
subsequently achieved his current position as a Physical Scientist at NRMRL in Cincinnati,
Ohio. He is also an adjunct professor at Wright State University, Dayton, OH. He has worked in
the areas of nanomaterials and nanotechnology, analytical chemistry, green chemistry, polymer
blends, solid coatings, solid state chemistry and drug delivery. He has received several Scientific
and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA) from the EPA, including the National Risk
Management Research Laboratory Goal 1 Award. He is recipient of “Chemist of the Year”
award” from ACS. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of several international
journals, has published ~ 250 papers in reviewed journals with a citation index ~13025 (H index
53), and holds several patents.